The more homework students complete, especially from grades six to twelve, the better they do in school, according to recent research. The research also demonstrates that parental attitudes toward homework play an important role in their children's education.

Music has been proven scientifically to have beneficial effects, both mentally and physically. Music has been shown to reduce blood pressure, change our heart and respiration rates, relieve stress and muscle tension. How you ever wondered whether music also affects our short term memory? Many students prefer to study while listening to music, and maybe they should in fact do so, if doing so will

Why is it that some people have better memory than others? There are a number of factors that can influence memory, and sometimes people are better at remembering certain types of information, while they have a more difficult time remembering information of another nature. An example of this is that some people are very good at remembering faces but have trouble remembering numbers. Whether a pers

The purpose of this experiment was to determine if gender affects visual selective attention. This was tested using the Stroop effect, a task that shows that people take much longer to say the color of a stimulus when it is used in printing an inappropriate color name, rather than if it appears as a simple solid block of color. The hypothesis of this experiment was that gender would not have an ef

No single method of instruction is superior in every discipline or environment for every student. This survey of the literature covers a variety of instructional methods. Included are references to case studies comparing teaching strategies, reports of experiments that attempt to evaluate and assess the superiority of one method over another, historical reviews, comments on current issues, and pre

The purpose of this experiment is to determine how well a person remembers the things they see on television. I think a person who is told to remember details will versus one who is not. By doing this experiment, I hope to find out more about the way the human brain works.

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